A specialist documentary resource shop featuring worksheets and challenge activities to support learning and thinking around educational documentaries. Resources are created by an experienced geography teacher and subject leader.
A specialist documentary resource shop featuring worksheets and challenge activities to support learning and thinking around educational documentaries. Resources are created by an experienced geography teacher and subject leader.
Africa, Namib, Desert Ecosystems
A question and answer worksheet to go with Namib Desert: Skeleton Coast and Beyond (Eden Episode 2). A iconic desert found in South West Africa.
This documentary on Namib, focuses on one of the oldest deserts in the world. With 50 degree temperatures and annual rainfall that is measured in millimetres, the documentary looks at animal adaptations to help survival.
How to use this resource
The worksheet has 22 questions that cover the full 48 minute documentary and comes with a detailed and clear answer sheet for teachers.
Questions on the following topics:
Desert ecosystems
Climate
Coastal region
Animal adaptations
Food chains
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A 20 question worksheet to support Earth: The Power of the Planet documentary. The first episode focused on the physical processes surrounding volcanoes and tectonic processes. Dr Iain Stewart reveals the role natural forces have played in the creation of the planet Earth. Although volcanoes appear to be destructive, volcanoes have been crucial to the development of life. Iain’s journey takes him to Ethiopia to discover lava lakes, to Iceland to scuba dive between continents and to New Zealand to sample some hot springs.
The worksheet has 20 questions, in varying styles that covers the full 1 hour documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Active volcanoes
Earth’s core
Plate boundaries
Earthquakes
Erosion and transportation
Climate Change
C02 storage
Subduction
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Documentary to support Weather and Climate lessons.
A question and answer worksheet (and follow on sheet) to support A Perfect Planet - Weather (BBC Documentary). The programme explores how weather controls the distribution of freshwater around our planet. In turn, this shapes the lives of animals across the globe, leading to incredible diversity of species and habitats.
The worksheet has 20 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a teacher answer sheet is included for staff unfamiliar with the topic. There is an additional differentiated worksheet to allow students to reflect further on their learning.
Documentary and worksheet cover the following topics:
Weather and climate
monsoons
drought
Ecosystems (including Amazon Rainforest and Gobi Desert)
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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Documentary exploring the changing coral reefs.
Question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary: Chasing Coral on Netflix. This film introduces students to the importance of coral reef ecosystems, the threats they are facing, climate change and how what one group of people are doing to let people know what is happening to coral reefs.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types and a teacher answer sheet with guide times for many questions to allow for lesson planning. Three short extension activities to fit around the documentary.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Marine ecosystems
Polyp structure
Symbiosis
Coral bleaching
Global warming
Climate Change
A 18 question worksheet and fact collection to support H20: The Molecule That Made Us (BBC Documentary), episode 1. This episode investigates the inseparable bond between water and life. It looks at water in the sky, animal migrations and how the impacts of drought.
The worksheet has a range of question types that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff, an answer sheet, with timings, is included for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet cover the following topics, among others:
Hadean Era
Water Cycle
Animal adaptation
Atmospheric circulation
Drought
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24 question worksheet with short follow on task to accompany BBC documentary series Climate Change - The Facts. Designed for use with a year 9 group studying climate change. A teacher answer sheet is provided and there is an optional extension exam task. Can also be used as a stand alone sheet or homework task.
Key themes:
global warming
Climate change
Fossil fuels
Impacts (economic, social, environmental)
Ways forward (international cooperation, renewables)
**Documentary exploring freshwater environments.
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This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Freshwater on BBC.
Sir David Attenborough explores how freshwater shapes the land and the creatures that lives in it in surprising ways.
This worksheet focuses on freshwater environments and includes the following topics:
Freshwater ecosystems
Costa Rican rainforest
The dry season in Sri Lanka
Hunting techniques in the Okavango Delta
Symbiotic relationships
Human water use
This worksheet covers the full 50 minutes of the documentary. There are a variety of question types used to keep kids engaged and comes with a handy teacher answer sheet with guide times to support lesson planning.
For worksheets to support other science and nature documentaries please see my shop.
Documentary exploring the changing coral reefs.
Question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary: Chasing Coral on Netflix. This film introduces students to the importance of coral reef ecosystems, the threats they are facing, climate change and how what one group of people are doing to let people know what is happening to coral reefs.
The documentary sheet has a variety of question types and a teacher answer sheer with guide times for many questions to allow for lesson planning. Three short extension activities to fit around the documentary.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Marine ecosystems
Polyp structure
Symbiosis
Coral bleaching
Global warming
Climate Change
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This documentary focuses on the heroes on the frontline of conservation who are risking everything in the fight to save wildlife.
This is a question and answer sheet to accompany the documentary Planet Earth 3: Heroes on the BBC.
This worksheet covers the full hour of the documentary. There are a variety of question types used to keep kids engaged and comes with a handy teacher answer sheet with guide times to support lesson planning.
If you choose to purchase this worksheet and leave a review, I would be happy to send you a free resource from my shop as a thank you (docgeog@gmail.com).
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A 20 question worksheet and differentiated follow on activity to support A Perfect Planet - Volcanoes (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at how without volcanoes, there would be no life on Earth. Although destructive, magma from the planet’s molten core builds land, and mineral-rich ash from eruptions fertilises the surface.
The worksheet has 20 questions, using a variety of question stems, that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a detailed answer sheet is included. I have also included a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to reflect on their learning from the documentary.
Worksheet includes the following topics:
Volcanoes
Advantages and disadvantages of volcanic environments
Ecosystem
Benefits and risks of habitats
Variety of land ecosystems
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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A 20 question worksheet and follow on activity sheet to support A Perfect Planet - The Ocean (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at the key forces around oceans of currents, winds and waves. Without the constant mixing of currents, tides and waves, our oceans would stop supporting life - and a healthy ocean is vital to a healthy planet.
The worksheet has 20 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff a comphrehensive answer sheet is included for teachers. There is an additional differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Oceans
Currents and wind
Wave formations
Marine ecosystems
Coastal zones and mangrove forests
Animal adaptation
Climate change
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Focus: Migration, Earth’s Seasons.
A comprehensive 19 question worksheet for Our Planet - World on the Move (Netflix Documentary). David Attenborough explores land and marine ecosystems and looks at the migrations that occur throughout the seasons.
The worksheet includes 19 different styled questions that cover the full 51 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Desert migration
Plant and animal interactions
Polar environments
Climate change
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Seasonal Forests, Seasonal Change
A comprehensive 24 question worksheet for Green Planet, Seasonal World (BBC Documentary). David Attenborough explores new filming techniques which allow us to enter the plants’ world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. Between the tropics and the frozen poles lies a region dominated by relentless change in the form of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each one presents plants with huge challenges, from ice and snow to raging fires; from intense competition to surprising enemies. To survive here plants must use strategy, deception and remarkable feats of engineering.
The worksheet includes 24 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Spring, summer, autumn and winter
Seasonal plants
Photosynthesis
Plant and animal interactions
Climate change
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Documentary focus: Water Crisis, Water Surplus, Water Deficit and Water Management across the world.
A 26 question worksheet and fact collection to support H20: The Molecule That Made Us (BBC Documentary), episode 3: Water Crisis. This episode investigates droughts,hurricanes and unsustainable water management.
The worksheet has a range of question types that cover the full 50 minute documentary. To support staff, a detailed answer sheet, with timings, is included for teachers. There are three follow on questions for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet cover the following topics, among others:
Water Cycle - stores, transfers
Atmospheric circulation
Drought
Hurricane
Aquifers
Floods
Sustainable water management
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A 29 question worksheet and follow on sheet to support A Perfect Planet - Humans (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at how humans are changing our planet so rapidly, that it is affecting earth’s life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.
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The worksheet has 29 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Extinction
Energy use
Oceans currents
Extreme weather events - droughts
Climate change
Deforestation
Desertification
Human solutions
Ecosystems: Sahara Desert, Amazon Rainforest & Ocean ecosystems
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Documentary: River Yukon, River Study.
A question and answer worksheet based around BBC documentary Earth’s Great Rivers, episode 3, Yukon River. A helpful teacher sheet with answers and timings is included. There are some follow on tasks include describe and explain questions and a mapping task. Could be used to support learning around river ecosystems, river basin animal habitats and adaptations. Good examples of low impact human use of a river. Can be used as a full lesson or used as a stand-alone homework.
Download includes all worksheets in both Word and PDF formats.
Documentary on Woodland Ecosystems
A comprehensive 21 question worksheet for Woodlands, Wild Isles (BBC Documentary).
Sir David Attenborough explores the incredible diversity of Britain’s woodlands, taking us on a seasonal journey through our forests, and revealing a host of spectacular animals and the hidden dramas that rule their lives.
The worksheet includes 21 different styled questions that cover the full 45 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Habitats
Food chains
Plant and animal interactions
Human impacts
If you like this resource, please leave a review. Worksheets have been made for other episodes of this series and many other science and nature documentaries for BBC and Netflix, please view them here.
Focus: Desert environment, desert ecosystem and adaptations
A comprehensive 24 question worksheet for Green Planet, Desert World (BBC Documentary). David Attenborough explores new filming techniques which allow us to enter the plants’ world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. This episode focuses on plant adaptations to desert conditions, where temperatures soar and plummet and water is rare.
The worksheet includes 24 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Desert vegetation
Plant and animal interactions
Adaptations
Climate change
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A comprehensive 20 question worksheet for Saving our Wild Isles (BBC Documentary).
David Attenborough narrates a documentary commissioned by the RSPB, WWF and the National Trust and inspired by Wild Isles. This documentary explores real stories of passionate people who are trying to restore biodiversity to the British Isles.
The worksheet includes 20 different styled questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet, with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:
Habitats
UK marine and land ecosystems
Biodiversity
Plant and animal interactions
Human impacts
Human sustainable projects
This worksheet comes as a Word document and as a PDF.
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Help your students get to grips with the environment and ecosystem of Antarctica in episode 4 of Frozen Planet 2 (BBC documentary), using this 2 page, 25 question and answer worksheet.
David Attenborough explores Antarctica, looking at the ecosystem, animal adaptations and the impacts of climate change.
How to use this sheet
The worksheet has 25 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.
Questions on the worksheet explore the following environments and topics:
• Coastal and interior environments
• Animal adaptation
• Extreme weather
• Climate change
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